{"id":289472,"date":"2026-07-14T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/i-chose-privacy-over-speed-with-my-dns-and-dont-regret-the-trade-off\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T14:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:50:11","slug":"i-chose-privacy-over-speed-with-my-dns-and-dont-regret-the-trade-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/i-chose-privacy-over-speed-with-my-dns-and-dont-regret-the-trade-off\/","title":{"rendered":"I chose privacy over speed with my DNS and don&#8217;t regret the trade-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-chose-privacy-over-speed-with-my-dns-and-dont-regret-the-trade-off\/\">I chose privacy over speed with my DNS and don&#8217;t regret the trade-off<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-chose-privacy-over-speed-with-my-dns-and-dont-regret-the-trade-off\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-chose-privacy-over-speed-with-my-dns-and-dont-regret-the-trade-off\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-14 14:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been using encrypted DNS for a while because I prefer keeping my ordinary DNS requests away from the prying eyes of my ISP. I always assumed it was slowing down my queries, but I\u2019d never actually measured it properly.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than waste precious milliseconds on a browser-based DNS speed test, I wrote my own PowerShell script that ran uncached lookups and recorded the results with a good level of accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>That little moment of curiosity quickly turned into a comparison between my ISP\u2019s automatic DNS, Cloudflare over HTTPS, and Mullvad over HTTPS, with a sprinkle of Wireshark packet analysis for good measure.<\/p>\n<p>My ISP was (unsurprisingly) the fastest. Cloudflare was slower, but absolutely usable. Mullvad averaged more than a second because it kept routing my Australian connection through London. In the end, I still chose privacy, but it was clear that routing played a significant role in the overall DNS speed test results.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tI benchmarked Quad9, NextDNS, and Cloudflare, and the winner wasn&#8217;t the big name<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Multiple testing locations and it still wasn&#8217;t completely clear.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-chose-privacy-over-speed-with-my-dns-and-dont-regret-the-trade-off\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I chose privacy over speed with my DNS and don&#8217;t regret the trade-off https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-chose-privacy-over-speed-with-my-dns-and-dont-regret-the-trade-off\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":289473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/07\/dns-speed-test-browser-based.png?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289474,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289472\/revisions\/289474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}